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  • A canticle for Leibowitz
    Author:

    Miller, Walter M.

    Summary:

    In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and pre

    Genre: Science fiction, Dystopian fiction

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    • Login to access MP3
      Running Time: 33:53:20
      Narrator: Multiple Readers
      Publisher: Crane Library, Thu, 01/01/2015 - 12:00
  • It can't happen here : a novel
    Author:

    Lewis, Sinclair

    Summary:

    A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that p

    Genre: Dystopian fiction, Classic fiction

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Running Time: 40:03:29
      Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)
      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
    • Login to access DAISY 3 - Full Text and Audio
      Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)
      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
  • Palace of the End
    Author:

    Thompson, Judith

    Summary:

    Based around the lives of three distinct characters—a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes the false justificatio

    Genre: Canadian drama, War fiction

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  • down from heaven
    Author:

    Wagner, Colleen

    Summary:

    A virus has plagued the city and residents are quarantined. Curfews have been imposed and rumours of government corruption abound. Bureaucratic red tape is creating a food crisis.

    Genre: Canadian drama, Dystopian fiction

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  • The Unplugging
    Author:

    Nolan, Yvette

    Summary:

    Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena and Bern retreat from the remains of civilization to a freezing, desolate landscape where they attempt to continue their lives after

    Genre: Canadian drama, Dystopian fiction

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  • Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia
    Author:

    Thompson, Judith

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    Ashperger, Cynthia

    Summary:

    In Hedda Gabler, a moving exploration of female oppression, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society.

    Genre: Canadian drama, Domestic fiction, War fiction

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  • The Mystery of Maddy Heisler
    Author:

    Lillford, Daniel

    Summary:

    As a young man in the midst of World War II, Jacob fell in love with an older woman and began a rapturous affair, until she seemingly vanished.

    Genre: Canadian drama, Historical fiction, War fiction

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  • PostApoc
    Author:

    Worth, Liz

    Summary:

    Sole survivor of a suicide pact, Ang has fallen into an underground music scene obsessed with the idea of the end of the world.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Dystopian fiction

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  • Three to a Loaf A Novel of the Great War
    Author:

    Goodspeed, Michael J.

    Summary:

    Three to a Loaf is the First World War story of Rory Ferrall, a young Canadian officer of Anglo-German descent who, after being wounded and disfigured at Ypres, comes to the attention of British mi

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), War fiction

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  • Our Only Shield A Novel of the Second World War
    Author:

    Goodspeed, Michael J.

    Summary:

    Set in the desperate days at the outset of the Second World War, Our Only Shield brings back Rory Ferrall, the resourceful Canadian spy from Michael J. Goodspeed’s debut novel, Three to a Loaf.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, War fiction

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  • All Else Is Folly A Tale of War and Passion
    Author:

    Acland, Peregrine

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    Busby, Brian

    ,

    Calhoun, James R.

    ,

    Ford, Ford Madox

    Summary:

    One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, War fiction

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  • Bird's Eye View
    Author:

    Florence, Elinor

    Summary:

    A Toronto Star Bestseller! Rose, a Canadian intelligence officer in Britain in World War II, struggles with conflicting feelings about the war and a superior’s attention.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction

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  • April Fool's Day : a novel
    Author:

    Novakovich, Josip

    Summary:

    Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia.

    Genre: War fiction

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  • 1984
    Author:

    Orwell, George

    Summary:

    Hidden away in the Record Department of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party whilst inwardly rebelling against the totalitarian world he l

    Genre: Dystopian fiction

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Audio
      Running Time: 29:01:40
      Narrator: Samuel West
      Publisher: BBC (Chivers) Audiobooks,, Sun, 01/01/2006 - 12:00
    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Audio
      Running Time: 29:01:40
      Publisher: Association for the Blind of W.A., Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00
  • Acadia
    Author:

    Nixon, Sterling

    Summary:
    Genre: Young adult fiction, Science fiction, War fiction, Dystopian fiction

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